Los Angeles Herald

That ill-feeling against Americans has not died out in Chile is evidenced by the fact that when Commander Evans of the Yorktown went ashore at Valparaiso the other day, his gig, while waiting at the landing, was stoned by a crowd of roughs. The commander at once reported this unfriendly demonstration to the chief Chilean naval officer, and that functionary immediately brought the matter to the attention of the police, besides expressing deep regret at the occurrence, and promising that no efforts would be spared to bring the offenders to justice.

It would, of course, not be fair to hold the Chilean people responsible for this inimical act, especially since the authorities so promptly made amends. But, taken in connection with the revelations made by the inquiry now in progress at Vallejo, into the Baltimore affair, the patriotic American's blood is made to boil, that this nation has been so long suffering and patient with a government that is so slow to redress wrongs of so grievous a nature. The pretext that the Valparaiso riot was only a drunken sailors' brawl, is disproved by all the evidence. The fact, that police and soldiers were among the principal assailants of our unarmed sailors is reason enough why this government should exact the most complete reparation.

And when to this is added the inhuman conduct of the authorities in refusing the wounded proper surgical attendance, thereby causing the death of one of them, and the pusillanimous conduct of Judge of Crimes Foster and the rest of the Chilean legal machinery, what is there to prevent the United States from enforcing her demands at the mouth of the cannon, and that without delay?